Résultats pour "music" dans Littérature et fiction

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before. The audiobook of Soul Music is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford (Fleabag; Vanity Fair; Quiz). BAFTA and Golden...

In 2045, friction has been engineered out of existence. But for two exiles on opposite sides of a broken world, the noise is just beginning. San Francisco is a paradise of perfect efficiency. AI "Mirrors" handle difficult conversations, and "Auto-gigs" project soulless concerts into empty clubs. Samir Patel is drifting. His marriage didn’t end with a fight, but with a quiet negotiation between algorithms. Now an exile in his own life, he tends bar at Maelzel’s Exhibition—one of the last holdouts for human-made music in a partitioned California.

Heinz Strunk lädt uns wieder ein in eine Welt, in der es viel zu staunen und zu lachen gibt, obwohl sie im Großen und Ganzen voller Schmerz und Schauer ist. Berichtet wird von ganz schön merkwürdigen Krankheiten, beunruhigenden Vorgängen im Nachbarhaus der Vorortsiedlung, es werden abgrundtief elende Familiengeschichten und Paartragödien erzählt.

Basie Wenger, a 24-year-old trained percussionist from Philadelphia, impulsively takes on a sudden posting as choir director for a church in Kansas City. Trying to adjust to small town life is difficult enough.

In the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab, sporting a fresh head wound, with a child custody case from hell, and with the clients to match. Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy suits and overused paper shredders. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder.

'Music from Big Pink' ist die Geschichte eines kleinen Drogendealers, der sich im Umfeld einer erfolgreichen Rockband auf der Höhe ihres Erfolgs...

Tim Key returns with more comic chaos, musically supported by Tom Basden Award-winning comedian Tim Key is back with three more series of his peculiar poetry programme. Having presented the show from a houseboat, a space simulator and the top of the Shard, he now ventures even further afield in...

Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem dreißigsten hat er sein Start-up versilbert; arbeiten muss er sein Leben lang nicht mehr. Aber es geht Heidbrink nicht gut, überhaupt nicht. Und so fährt er eines kalten Januartages los Richtung Osten, in die mecklenburgische Einöde, wo inmitten von Sümpfen ein schlossartiger Bau emporragt: das Sanatorium. Alles ausgesprochen nobel, aber eben doch: Klinik, für Menschen mit dem einen oder anderen Knacks.

Al Jolson, “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”, sings songs of the day and invites his celebrity guests to join him on 16 half-hour musical-variety broadcasts.

Take a delightful, amusing journey into the world of radio and music. You will discover the Camiemda Ranch, a magical place high in the Colorado Rockies, where Paddy Gaughan introduced radio broadcasting in the early 20th Century. One hundred years later his great grandson teams up with the nation's finest program director and one of the country's great promotions directors (who are madly in love with one another, but can't seem to settle down in the same city) to establish the world's most famous radio station.

'Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.' There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover...

'This has to be my favourite novel of Portia's!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get lost in this rockstar rom-com from million-copy bestseller Portia MacIntosh. Nicole Wilde’s life is one of sell-out gigs, sleeping on tour buses, and partying with the band all night long. But she’s not in the...

Drei Schicksale, ein Tresen, hundert Geschichten: Die legendäre Kneipe Haus Himmelreich, eine der letzten ihrer Art im ganzen Ruhrgebiet, soll schließen! Der Erzähler nimmt das zum Anlass, sich die Gaststätte genauer anzusehen. Bei seiner Recherche für einen Artikel begegnet er skurrilen Stammgästen wie dem Käpt'n, dem Langen, Faris, dem Comedian oder der Wacholder-Anni, die so einiges zu erzählen haben. Der wahre Geist der Kneipe ist allerdings Wirtin Rita Urbaniak. Sie übernahm die Kneipe schon in den 1970ern, obwohl sie eigentlich was ganz anderes machen wollte.

This release combines two of Victor Borge's finest albums, "Caught In The Act" and "Comedy In Music". All the well-loved classics are featured...

Well, not really. But kinda. Bubba's hitting the road to to help a friend when Uncle Father Joe calls for aid. Bubba rolls into Orlando to help out the defrocked priest and his scientist/were-gator girlfriend, and ends up stumbling into something much bigger than even that giant lizard's cloaca! Somebody's hunting cryptids, and it ain't him, so he needs to find out what's going on back in them swamps, and why suddenly everybody is named Director Shaw?!?

Hell's too full, so the Devil hires ad man Dirk Quigby to pen a travel guide enticing travelers to different afterlives: Hindu, Catholic, Protestant (that one's got a lot of subdivisions), Scientologist, and more. Instead of writing a boffo best seller, Dirk unites all religions in a common goal: kill Dirk. E. E. King grew up in one of those tolerant households that don't force religion down kids' throats. This is the result.

The guy in the next cubicle listens exclusively to Kenny G. It's all Aliester Crewley hears at work, day after excruciating day. It's driving him mad. Music this bad can only mean one thing - something demon-y is afoot. A powerful amateur magickian, Aliester knows how to deal with demons. But actions can have seriously unintended, rather bizarre consequences - of the Apocalyptic kind.

Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 17 episodes of the anarchic 1960s radio comedy, including the 1967 Christmas special. Round the Horne arrived on BBC radio in 1965, bringing laughter to Sunday lunchtimes throughout the land. Over the course of sixteen...

“An intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation” (Stephanie Danler). Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? It’s the early days of the new...

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s popular one-act play is back as a musical in Aria Da Capo (Da Capo Con Musica). Songwriter, L. J. Schulz brings Millay’s evocation of the post-World War I spiritual "wasteland" up to the moment with a score in rock, folk, gospel, and show-tune styles.